Troubleshooting 8-3 System emits continuous beeps.Turn the system off, wait at least five seconds, and turn the system on. Ifthe beeps continue, call the NEC CSD Technical Support Center. System does not maintain date, time, system configurationinformation.Change the battery (see “Battery Replacement” in Section 3,“Disassembly and Reassembly”). System does not boot from hard drive.The system usually tries to start from the diskette drive before it startsfrom the hard drive. Remove the diskette from the diskette drive.Run the Setup utility (see Section 2, “System Configuration”) and set theinitial Boot parameter to Hard Drive instead of Removable Device. System does not boot immediately after hard drive spins up.The “Hard Disk Pre-Delay” in the BIOS Setup utility Boot menu can bechanged to a lower setting. (If a message “operating system not found”appears after changing the setting, the delay is at too low. Set the harddisk pre-delay slightly higher.) System performance appears sluggish.Check that the system is set for optimal operation. See the operatingsystem documentation.Check the memory requirements of the software applications. If required,install additional DIMM memory (see Section 3, “Disassembly andReassembly”).If optional DIMM memory was added, check that it is correctly installed. System password forgotten.Clear the password and reset it. See “Clearing a Password” in Section 2,“System Configuration.”Diskette Drive ProblemsCheck the following to see the possible cause and solution. Diskette won’t load.Check that the diskette is being loaded correctly.Check that the system and monitor power lamps are on and the power-onscreen appears.Check that the diskette is formatted. If not, format it. See the operatingsystem documentation.Check that the diskette size is 1.44 MB.
